The Adjustment of VaR to the Empirical Distribution of Returns

Basel II Recommendations concerning internal rating based models approach for financial institutions and the success of RiskMetrics made Value-at-Risk (VaR) is the most important risk measurement instrument at international level. The objective of this paper is to address the problem of adapting thi...

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Main Author: Radu Lupu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2006-04-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Economics
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Online Access: http://store.ectap.ro/articole/68.pdf